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IN general, this work covers the usual field of modern textbooks on hydraulics, commencing in part 1 with a brief account of the fundamental principles of hydro-mechanics and proceeding in part 2 to deal with the practical applications of the subject to pipes and pipe systems, open channel control, hydraulic turbines and pumping machinery. The book has been designed for three classes of reader: the general student; the electrical practitioner, within whose province it falls to be familiar with the performance of pumps and turbines rather than with their mechanical details; and the specialist in water supply, irrigation and the construction of pumps and turbines. For the first of these classes, part 1 has been provided together with a number of worked out examples. These examples with their solutions occupy a considerable section of the book (64 pages) and are a valuable feature. The second class will find their needs specially catered for in part 2, while the third class may be expected to gather from the principles enunciated throughout the book a reliable basis for the study of more detailed treatises.
A Text Book of Applied Hydraulics.
By Prof. Herbert Addison. Pp. xii + 409 + 24 plates. (London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1934.) 21s. net.
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C., B. A Text Book of Applied Hydraulics . Nature 134, 441 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/134441b0
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